Usage of AI in Image Processing

Present-days the recent improvement/development in artificial intelligence has come up with

the huge growth of image processing concepts and algorithms. It has been entered in our
daily life and serves a great different needs of today’s generation. From controlling cars to
carrying out face detection for attendance system and biometric access, image processing also
helps us on Facebook and other social media platforms rapidly for image search and aid
visually impaired users. It also helps in processing and categorizing objects based on the
trained algorithms. We want the machines to do more than just recognizing images and
predicting the output. With the advancement in Artificial Intelligence, it has helped engineers
in a tremendous way to design software that can impersonate the human capacity to observe,
understand, recognize and describe the photo and video content with great accuracy. AI has
taken a considerable amount of expanse in the current market. One of the real-time
applications of AI, growing immensely in various sectors is- ‘IMAGE PROCESSING’.

What is Image Processing ?

Image processing is manipulating an image in order to perform enhancement or extract

informationfrom it. Nowadays, image processing is among rapidly growing technologies.

There are two types of methods in image processing:

 Analog image processing, which is wisely used for processing photographs,
printouts, and other image hard copies.
 Digital image processing, which is used for manipulating digital images with the help
of complex computer algorithms.

The general phases that all types of image have to undergo while using digital image
processing technique are pre-processing, enhancement, and display, information extraction.

Today, image processing techniques use filters to enhance an image. Their main applications
are to transform the contrast, brightness, resolution and noise level of an image. It is widely
used in medical visualization, biometrics, self-driving vehicles, machine/robot vision
,gaming, surveillance, and law enforcement.

Here are some of the main purposes of image processing:

 Visualization represents and gives us the processed data in recognizable way, giving
visual form to objects that aren’t visible, for instance.
 To improve image quality ,Image sharpening and restorationare used.
 Image acquisition helps with image search.
 Also helps in object measurementwhich allows you to measure objects in an image.
 With the help of Pattern recognitionwe can distinguish and classify objects in an
image, identify their positions, and get an overall understanding of the scene.
 Above figure shows : Example of pattern recognition operations

Image processing includes eight important key phases:

 Image acquisition: It is the process of capturing an image with a sensor and

converting it into a manageable entity.
 Image enhancement :Theinput image quality is improved and extracted hidden details
from it.
 Image restoration : It removes any possible corruptions blurred, noisy, or camera miss
focused from an image in order to get a cleaner version of the image . This process is
based on mathematical and probabilistic models.
 Color image processing : This basically includes processing of colored images and
different colorspaces.Considering about pseudocolor image processing when colors
are assigned grayscale values or RGB processing (for images acquired with a full-
color sensor).
 Image compression and decompression: It allow for compressing the image size and
resolution. Compression is responsible for reducing the size and resolution of the
image while decompression is used for restoring images to the original image.
 Morphological processing : Defines the shape and structure of the objects in an
image.
 Image recognition: Identifying specific features of particular objects in an image.
Image recognition uses such techniques as object detection, object recognition, and
segmentation.
 Representation and descriptionis the process of visualizing processed data.

Open Source AI Solutions for Image Processing :

1. OpenCv:

Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV) is one of the most popular open
source services for image processing. It’s a free computer vision library that you can
use to perform various image processing tasks:
2. Tenserflow :

TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework created by Google.

Initially, the project was started for research purposes of the Google Brain team.
Today, however, TensorFlow is widely used by both small startups and large
companies such as Dropbox, Intel, and Twitter.

3. Keras :

Kerasis an open-source Python library for creating deep learning models. It’s a great
solution for those who only begin to use machine learning algorithms in their projects
as it simplifies the creation of a deep learning model from scratch. Keras is easy to
manage and it is suitable for fast and simple prototyping of different types of neural
networks.

4. Caffe :

Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding (Caffe) is an open-source

framework that can also be used for creating and training popular types of deep
learning architectures. You can use Caffe to accomplish such tasks as image
classification, segmentation, and recognition.

5. Colab :

Google Colaboratory, or simply Colab, is one of the top image processing

services. While it’s rather a cloud service than a framework, you can still
use Colab for building custom deep learning applications from scratch.
With the help of Colab, you can perform such image processing tasks
as image classification, segmentation, and object detection.